ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,543, issued on July 29, was assigned to CYTENA BIOPROCESS SOLUTIONS Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Device for processing a liquid sample" was invented by Jonas Schondube (Freiburg, Germany), Stefan Zimmermann (Bollschweil, Germany), Andre Gross (Freiburg, Germany), Cheng-Han Tsai (Freiburg, Germany) and Peter Koltay (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for processing a liquid sample, comprising a carrier that has at least one well for receiving the liquid sample, a processing unit for carrying out at least one processing step, and an actuating apparatus, which has an electrical control or r...